Question

PLEASE HELP DESPERATE Renaissance painters were influenced by a shading technique known as chiaroscuro, first introduced by which of the following? A Byzantine painter An Islamic painter A Greek painter A Spanish painter Its not A.

Answer 1

The correct anwer is: A Greek painter.

The chiaroscuro is a technique that appeals to the contrasts between shadows and light in a work to highlight certain elements of the painting and to develop visual effects of modeling and relief.

Apollodorus of Athens is considered to be the inventor of the primitive system of chiaroscuro with a pattern of lines for modeling objects and curved figures.

Answer 2

Some evidence exists that ancient Greek and Roman artists used chiaroscuro effects, but in European painting the technique's originator was Leonardo da vinci   in the late 15th century in such paintings as his Adoration of the Magi (1481).